Orthodox Icon of St. Tatiana of Beijing

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June 10th
Troparion (Tone 3)
Let us the flock of Christ with love and piety now glorify with hymns and truly joyous odes the faithful Martyrs of the truth who suffered for Christ in China. For having confessed the Faith, they all bravely went to death as lambs, which were sacrificed for our Shepherd and Master Christ. Therefore to the Martyrs we cry out, "Remember us all, who sing your praises".

St. Tatiana.was the wife of the first Orthodox Chinese priest in Beijing, St. Mitrophan. Her family members were among the first to enter into martyrdom during the anti-Christian Boxer movement in 1900. Her family as well as many parishioners of the Beijing church were gathered in the burnt-out remains of their church, when they were attacked. St. Tatiana and St. Mitrophan first saw the torture and death of their eight year old son, John. They cut off his nose, ears, and toes, but John refused to wail or moan. By a miracle, he felt no pain. In response to his executioners accusations of him being a demon-child, John simply stated, "I am an Orthodox Christian and I believe in Christ, not in demons". Then St. Tatiana, along with her twenty-three year old son, Isaiah, were slaughtered and thus received their crowns of martyrdom. St. Mitrophan was stabbed to death shortly there after. Isaiah's betrothed, Maria, arrived at the church soon after. She helped many escape the churchyard massacre by jumping the garden walls, but she stayed to face her enemies. She chose to die with the family of her betrothed. They pierced her feet and hands and encouraged her to give up the Faith. She refused saying, "I was born here at the Church of the All-Holy Mother of God, I will die here too." Two hundred and twenty-two of the nearly thousand members of the Beijing parish received their crowns of martyrdom that day.

This icon is by the hand of Nicholas Papas. This icon is one of the "cloud of witnesses" at St. Philip's Antiochian Orthodox Church, Souderton, Pennsylvania.

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